Tag: technology
Egnor: Democracy, Tyranny, and Technology
“It is the obscurity of AI that most impairs liberty. We do not know what is being done to us or even what is being done by us.”
Life After Google — Gilder’s Vision
It’s the quality of vision that’s most painfully lacking in our intellectual and moral leaders, not merely diverse or polymathic knowledge
Bill Dembski on the AI Boogeyman, and the Real AI Danger
“The real worry,” Dembski says, “isn’t that we’ll raise machines to our level, but that we’ll lower humanity to the level of machines.”
More on Winston Ewert’s “Dependency Graph of Life” — An Important New Paper
The evolution of life mimics the evolution of software or other human technology.
How Contemporary Society Promotes Elder Suicide
Two UCSF medical professors warn about increasing “rational” elder suicides.